Carolyn Krebs and Julie Redler of San Diego, California sailed a consistent series holding off the competition to win the Roy Yamaguchi Memorial trophy for the fifth Snipe Women&#8217;s World Championship.

Women's Worlds

Competition was close with 5 people able to win the title going in to the last day. On the last beat of the final race, the top 3 sailors changed positions with the ultimate decision made at the finish line.

St. Petersburg Yacht Club in Florida ran a remarkable event in breezy conditions of 8-18 knots with 7 completed races. 8 nations were represented in the 16 boat fleet

Masters Worlds

Augie Diaz wins Triple Crown!

Augie Diaz of Miami, Florida won the World Masters Championship giving him the triple crown for the year as US National, Western Hemisphere & Orient and now World Masters Champion! Augie sailed with a different crew for each event, but managed to claim each title decidedly.

60 teams from 12 countries arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida and were divided in to 3 divisions. The Snipes have it all figured out… a Master skipper must be 45 years with a combined 80 years in the boat. There are 3 divisions within the Masters; apprentice (45-54 years) master (55-64 years) and grand master (65 and older.) So the older a skipper, the younger the crew, and some of the grand masters took full advantage of the rule!

With the regatta held immediately following the Women's, the masters found the women had used up all the breeze. Only 4 races were able to be sailed, with the breeze in the 4-8 knot range. Social events were key and many teams from years ago re-joined to compete at the top level.

Sailors are looking forward the 2004 World Masters to be held in Lake Bracciano, Italy.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.